The Sweetest Dark, Shana Abe
The Sweetest Dark, Shana Abe
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The Sweetest Dark

Author: Shana Abe

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre, Rich Orlow, Bianca Amato

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/07/2013

Synopsis

Jones has always known that she' s different. On the outside, she appears to be an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl. Yet Lora' s been keeping a heartful of secrets: She hears songs that no one else can hear, dreams vividly of smoke and flight, and lives with a mysterious voice inside her that insists she' s far more than what she seems. England, 1915. Raised in an orphanage in a rough corner of London, Lora quickly learns to hide her unique abilities and avoid attention. Then, much to her surprise, she is selected as the new charity student at Iverson, an elite boarding school on England' s southern coast. Iverson' s eerie, gothic castle is like nothing Lora has ever seen. And the two boys she meets there will open her eyes and forever change her destiny. Jesse is the school' s groundskeeper-- a beautiful boy who recognizes Lora for who and what she truly is. Armand is a darkly handsome and arrogant aristocrat who harbors a few closely guarded secrets of his own. Both hold the answers to her past. One is the key to her future. And both will aim to win her heart. As danger descends upon Iverson, Lora must harness the powers she' s only just begun to understand, or else lose everything she dearly loves.

About Shana Abe

Shana Abe is the award-winning, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the Sweetest Dark series and the Drakon series. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California, and currently lives in the mountains of Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mimi on July 10, 2012

In my thesaurus for this book, The Sweetest Dark is synonymous to beautiful. Ordinary is not-a-fat-chance. And Shana Abe is something of a genius for creating a story so lush, so beautiful, and so different from your classic paranormal book! I just HAVE to break it down! :') The world: Taking place......more

Goodreads review by A.G. on March 22, 2016

I have drooled over Abe's prose for several years now. I've read a few of her adult romance novels, and my favorites are her Drakon Series themed books (The Smoke Thief & The Dream Thief). She stayed true to her signature lush, descriptive storytelling and knack for romantic tension and subtle fanta......more

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on July 10, 2017

This book is my most surprising find of 2013 thus far. I had barely remembered requesting this book to review when it came time to read it. I honestly didn't know what to expect. I didn't read the blub again before starting it because the descriptions often give too much away, in my opinion. In truth......more

Goodreads review by Whitley Birks on August 26, 2013

When I first started this book, I went in knowing that many of my friends had given it one star. I was confused. Sure, it was clichéd and slow-moving, but it was still a pretty fun read, certainly nothing worthy of such abysmal ratings. I enjoyed the setting and the atmosphere, probably because boar......more

Goodreads review by Candace on June 14, 2012

Sometimes there are those books that hit you so hard, so powerfully, that you know that there are no words to describe it, there's no way to get your point across how amazing the book is. The Sweetest Dark was like that for me. This was so much perfection within it's pages that I nearly cried at the......more

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